Date registered: April 29, 2012
Apr 30
I gave this presentation (audio recorded separately) to a packed room at AERA in San Francisco. The panel session was titled “Dewey and the Mind: Exploring Psychological and Neurological Implications of Dewey’s Work” Over the past century or more, the language associated with education and pedagogy has changed considerably. I sketch out an overview of …
Apr 13
Phenomenology & Practice announces a special issue devoted to the phenomenological description and exploration of the experience of being online in educational or pedagogical contexts. The intent of this special issue is to focus particularly on epistemology of practice, on practice as pathic knowledge and/or as tact, unfolding in online contexts. These aspects of practice …
Apr 08
A special issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie co-edited by Erika Smith and myself, is out. This issue has some great papers, including a short editorial by Andrew Feenberg, an excellent phenomenological study by Derek Tannis (on “Technology help giving and seeking”) and a paper on …
Apr 08
This paper explores some readings and questions I’ve been working on for quite awhile. What is the relation of present-day educational media and technologies to the most basic and fundamental media of communication: text and speech? Unlike the forms that we usually associate with educational technology and educational media today, there is a wide-ranging history …
Mar 19
A presentation I’ve given in Leipzig at a conference on comparative curriculum and didactics. It outlines some of the basics of curriculum design and lesson planning in the North American context; In this presentation, I will describe curriculum, lesson plans and instructional theory in Canada and the USA. Over the past 50 years, the theory …
Mar 01
Two reviews are in for a couple of my book projects: The first is for The Place of the Classroom and the Space of the Screen (Peter Lang, 2011), which has just been reviewed by Robert Rosenberger at Georgia Tech for the journal Human Studies. The second is an advance review for Forgotten Connections: On Culture and …
Feb 17
A new, special issue of the free, online journal, Phenomenology & Practice, is out. The theme of this issue is “the call of teaching.” One excellent article in the issue is by Gert Biesta. It looks at a question that has long been of key importance in educational technology and in “learning theory.” This is the …
Jan 28
Claire Major from the U. of Alabama recently requested a short description for her forthcoming book, Teaching Online: Understanding and Managing Instructional Changes when Teaching with the Internet (forthcoming from JHU Press). She asked about the connection between the notion of the teacher personae online and some of the research I’ve done into the teacher-student …
Jan 24
Just got this open publication, co-authored with Christine Wihak, published in the journal Open Praxis. Here’s abstract, etc: Recent developments in OER and MOOCs (Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses) have raised questions as to how learners engaging with these courses and components might be assessed or credentialed. This descriptive and exploratory …
Jan 06
I’ve revived the site for the CanCore Learning Object Metadata Initiative –complete with all the guidelines documents and updates to 2007. I’ve received the odd, periodic request for the guidelines in the last few years. It probably is a good thing that technical standardization is no longer seen as the driver of change in e-learning …
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